can i just point out to the bulls ( and rhino fan) that to compare the fortunes of leeds,bradford and huddersfield is just plain stupid.i started watching fartown in 1987 and as anyone who knows anything about rugby league will know that huddersfield were a club on the brink of death,a decline that set in in the late 70's early 80's had well and truly struck us! there seemed little hope for the club and gates were down to a few hundred,meanwhile leeds and bradford and even halifax were blazing the trails and we were a hundred miles behind, i used to watch us get beat by trafford,chorley,bramley etc in front of a few hundred people then watch the big guns on scrumdown,dreaming that i could watch top flight rugby league!.
slowly but surely we picked ourselves up despite almost going to the wall 3 times in 10years,finally in 1998 i got to live my dream of watching top flight rugby, despite the fact that we were truly woeful in those first few years,we went down and came back up stronger. i still dreamed of competing with leeds bradford etc until we slowly started closing the gap,and now we find ourselves as equals,despite the fact we have had the better over the bulls the last few years.
i cringe sometimes when i see or hear our fans try and make out we are bigger and better than what we are,a little humilty is lacking sometimes, but it's only the last few years that huddersfield can say that are equals with leeds and bradford and considering the gap that has been for the last 30 years thats truly remarkable.
we haven't won anything in 50 years no,thats true,we haven't won anything of note,thats true, but to try and do us down in comparision with leeds and bradford is just crass and embarrassing.
sorry for the long winded rant but i will revel in the fact that we've beaten bradford again but i will never try and claim that we are bigger than them in recent times.
bradford had great success which was good for the game as a whole,but had very little of note to show before they became the gods of super league,im sure most bulls fans felt the same as i do when they went to wembley in 1996 and won their first super league title some of them probably only dreamt of doing that stood on cold wet terraces along with a few thousand other hardy souls?
so what im saying is,dont tar all fartown fans with the same brush,we are a club that has come a hell of a long way,farther than any other SL club,we've almost had to start from scratch and we are doing rather nicely.put us down and our fans down but dont try and compare the 3 clubs.
phew! and breathe
